AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire technical specs and benchmarks

AMD started Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire sales 1 May 2012. This is a GCN architecture desktop card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers.

Its power consumption is at 200 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 30.89 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA Quadro P6000.

Info on video card type (desktop or notebook), its architecture and sales start time and price.

Quantitative parameters such as shaders number, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly say of video card performance, but to be more precise you have to review it's benchmark and gaming test results.

Information on video card compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus - if the video card is inserted into the slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Parameters of memory installed on the video card - type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

APIs supported by video card, sometimes including their particular versions.

Non-gaming benchmarks performance. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

How good for gaming a particular GPU is. Gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS. Overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade of the video card.